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As some of you know, the museum has a great gift shop! It carries works by artists from all over Arctic Canada as well as a selection of books, cards, T-shirts and DVDs to choose the perfect gift or souvenir of your visit to the museum. Today we’re going to introduce you to Ashley, our retail sales associate in the gift shop so she can take you along as she does an unboxing of new inventory!

My name is Ashley Cook and I’ve been the retail sales associate at the gift shop for about a year now. I’m here to help visitors find that little something they love so that they have a souvenir of their trip! This past week, we received a new selection of works for the shop, so I thought I’d take you along with me to show you what happens.

The shop works directly with Arctic Co-operatives to choose our inventory. Once we have decided what pieces we want for the shop, they get sent to us processed.

Time to start unpacking this box!

Making sure everyone’s here.

If you’re wondering, yes, it is a little bit like Christmas every time we get new pieces for the shop! As soon as we open the box, we have to make sure everyone’s safe and accounted for. Everybody gets checked off of the main list given to us by the co-op that sent us the pieces.

We get by with a little help from our friends…

Once everybody’s been checked off, they’re all given a unique inventory number so we can keep track of them. All pieces get measured and weighed, and some get photographed for the gift shop’s website.

Tags galore!

He may be in the lightweight class…

Once they’ve been measured, priced and photographed, they can go out into the shop for you to take home. Our bear shelves have some new inhabitants now!

Hanging out with some friends!

We get new pieces fairly regularly here in the shop, so come by and see what’s new! Also, if you’re interested in any of the pieces you saw in this post, or have any questions, feel free to come visit or send me an email! We’re open every day, 10am to 6pm, and you can send me a message at shop@miamuseum.ca.